Will Musk be the next Trump?

[NineBerry]

He's going to turn wine into water

[L'Emmerdeur]

Musk and AfD agree: Hitler was a communist. That settles it, right?

[JimC]

That humming sound is Marx spinning in his grave...

[aufbahrung]

Nazis are Commies now. All started to go wrong with fried Mars bars if you ask me.

[Tero]

Lies about Social Security may be appealing to Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who will do whatever he can to avoid paying his fair share. But these lies will never convince the American people to abandon their overwhelming support for our Social Security system.

Those lies have failed to change the narrative for 90 years, and they’re not going to work now.

It’s no surprise that Musk wants to undermine support for Social Security and is eager to amplify Mike Lee’s lies to do so. Musk’s so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” is designed to target our earned benefits, with Republicans already admitting that “there will be some cuts” to Social Security and Medicare.

We must not let that happen.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/go ... l-security

[Tyrannical]

Musk will be some sort of philosopher troll for the next forty years minimum

[Tero]

Musk will be Howard Hughes. Holed up alone in a hotel room. 5 years tops.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Guys. Guys guys, guys. You're forgetting that he's going to Mars.

[pErvinalia]

We can only hope.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Part of the Musk persona is being an extremely proficient gamer. He showed off an example of that in a game stream, which apparently demonstrated that he's most likely paid strong gamers to boost his 'score.' The article below makes a play of proposing 'charitable' interpretations of the tells in Musk's stream but it seems pretty clear that he's not the player he claims to be.

'Path of Exile 2 players are calling foul on Elon Musk's high-level hardcore character after he streams his struggles with core game mechanics'

As we've reported previously, despite holding executive roles in multiple major corporations and undertaking the busy work of burrowing himself in incoming political regimes, Elon Musk manages to find time to boast some impressive gaming laurels, claiming to hold high placements in Diablo 4 leaderboards and Path of Exile 2 hardcore league rankings. This week, those claims are being called into doubt, as PoE 2 streamers and subreddit sleuths analyze a recent stream in which Musk seemed to fumble over basic gameplay mechanics.

On January 7, Musk streamed an hour and a half of Path of Exile 2 gameplay on his current level 95 hardcore character. In PoE 2, surviving into higher levels in the hardcore league, regardless of ladder placement, is an impressive feat: As you progress, the game stacks layers of enemy modifiers, damage resistance reductions, and hazardous tileset modifiers, and dying once in hardcore means your character is toast. Getting a hardcore character into the 80s is impressive; getting one high enough into the 90s to place high on the hardcore ladder is a feat of skilled gameplay and buildcraft.

The gameplay on display in viewer-recorded VODs of the stream, however, is… well, not that.

[Several highly questionable in-game discrepancies between the level of the account and Musk's interaction with the game ...]

"My equipment's pretty low level compared to my character level, but it seems to work pretty well," he says, even though it's all high-end gear that's been meticulously collected, crafted, and rerolled to maximize his character's build. It's a misapprehension that, frankly speaking, strains belief.

For players on the PoE 2 subreddit, the stream intensifies the doubt already surrounding Musk's ownership of his account. "His gear is better than a lot of full time streamers. No way it is real. Account sharing or boost of some kind," redditor InvestmentFew9366 said.

"I mean he has a f'in mirror tier staff and says he needs to replace it because it's only level 62," said redditor frenchpatato. "You don't need to say anything else."

[Brian Peacock]

Liberal nonsense. Chancellor Musk is the best pay4play gamer in the world.

In other news...

Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’.
Black, pot, and kettles spring to mind.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Babba the Hut is just peeved that Musk has horned in on his action as the Grubby Eminence behind the throne.

[JimC]

Goebbels, Himmler, Goring...

Squabbled a lot, I imagine...

[Brian Peacock]

Babba the Hut is just peeved that Musk has horned in on his action as the Grubby Eminence behind the throne.

Courtiers will court I guess.

[Tero]

VP Musk ikely to cut Obamacare to nothing:
Without CSRs, a family of four earning $40,000 could face deductibles as high as $5,000 before their insurance benefits take effect. The result: 7 million would drop out of the exchanges, with an estimated 4 million families becoming uninsured altogether.

If Congress allows CSR payments to expire in 2026, federal expenses could drop by approximately $35 billion annually. As millions of individuals exit the exchanges and forgo re-enrollment due to unaffordable out-of-pocket costs, DOGE could also take credit for additional savings of up to $50 billion.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpear ... americans/